We manufactured
these two rather similar formats a few years apart. Apparently Numero liked the
Titan format so much (turned edge slip case, booklet and four jackets) they
used the same format for the recently released Kid Is Gone project.
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(It's All Pop)
(Kid is Gone)
The Titan
project "It's All Pop", Numero 024, utilizes a 2 color printed and matte film laminated turned
edge slip case, carefully enclosing the white-lined .110” graphic board. Inside
you’ll find a 20 page + cover perfect bound booklet capturing many image of the
8 bands and extensive commentary by the label’s founders. Four .020 SBS 2 color
record jackets hold the four LPs. The rather dramatic dubbed in red accents add a highlight you'd normally expect from a band on a budget.
Numero Notes:
From 1978-1981 the Titan
label issued only eight records, but over the years their tiny catalog has
crawled to the top of power-pop want lists worldwide and appeared on scads of
bootleg cassettes, building a legacy to rival L.A.’s Bomp or New York’s Ork.
Located in fly-over country, Titan was forced to start their own scene, import
their own skinny ties, and scour Missouri for their own talent. Their midwest
AM bubblegum roots are apparent in the likes of Gary Charlson, the Secrets*,
Arlis!, Gems, Millionaire At Midnight, the Boys, J.P. McClain & the
Intruders, Bobby Sky, and Scott McCarl, but Titan was clearly influenced by the
glam-punk spit being hocked from the 100 Club stage.
We've recreated the scrapped live Boys 10", originally
slated for release by Titan in 1980! Cut from the original 1/4" tape, the
set includes "Out Of Touch," "Night Time," "You're Bad
Too," and "Yesterday's Circles." Housed in a tip-on jacket and
given the prestigious 024.5 catalog number, this limited-to-1000 10" is
yours free when you order the 4LP Titan: It's All Pop! Once they're gone,
they're gone for good.
30 years since they
meekly flopped out their first 7” single, Kansas City’s Titan Records finally
returns to record bins everywhere in a deluxe two-disc retrospective with
comprehensive 40-page booklet.
Kid Is
Gone, Unwound, Numero 202.2, utilizes a black only printed turned
edge slip case uses a brown Kraft wrap very similar to French Paper’s Oatmeal
product. The wrap carefully encloses the .90” gray graphic board. Inside you’ll
find a 24 page + cover saddle stitched booklet capturing many images of the young
band and of course the famous Numero commentary. Three .026 jackets using gray
graphic chip mounted with the same brown Kraft paper that was used for the slip
case. The jacket wraps were printed
using a large litho screened style design. Very effective for hiding
less-than-ideal images.
Numero Notes:
Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal
Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry,
Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material
into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt
Sandeno’s first restive years, “Crab Nebula” might’ve best prepared the
indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno’s split not stalled their
planned debut. Part 1 in Numero’s 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone
documents signal chaos in Olympia’s fertile scene before Unwound’s turbulent
noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three
LPs—cassette-only demos, early 7”s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked
live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994’s Unwound, on which the
band’s prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion,
feedback, and abrasive promise.
